Let’s be honest - Everest should be cut off from climbers, and the only people that should be allowed up there are ppl who volunteer to clean up all the garbage and human excrement adrenaline junkies have left up there over the decades, and anyone who volunteers to attempt to bring down any bodies of those who died.

The ascent is too dangerous, too many ill-equipped and unprepared climbers try to make the climb, and too much garbage is piling up and poisoning the run off that communities around Everest rely on to live.

Reminder that:

this is another reason why land back / indigenous sovereignty is so important. give the mountain back to the people who’ve been taking care of it for centuries and let them have full control over it legally. let them decide if it should or shouldn’t be a tourist attraction or if people should be allowed to climb it. just defer to Sherpa people when it comes to anything to do with Sagarmāthā

I think this era of "transandrophobia"posting has made people's perception of what transmisogyny is shift. Transmisogyny is not just "transphobia against trans women", it's "the intersection of transphobia and misogyny as experienced by trans women". I see people separate misogyny and transmisogyny pretty often as if they're separate, but they're really, really not. If you know stuff about feminism, you notice many of the same misogynistic tropes and ideas used against cis women being used against trans women, because transmisogyny is misogyny

Caveat to this that I want to add is that there are a lot of "transandrophobia" guys who seem to actually believe that "misandry" is something systemic that affects cis men too, in a very mid-2010s "anti-SJW" "what about men" sort of way, which is it's own problem that also exists to undermine conversations about misogyny and feminism. I've just ALSO noticed a bunch of people who will go "no I'm not saying misandry is real, this is just about trans men!" which is, on its face, fine, there is a specific kind of transphobia experienced by trans men and we do deserve to be able to talk about that sometimes. However, the way "transmisandry" or "transandrophobia" are clearly meant to directly reflect "transmisogyny" either advertently or inadvertently works to redefine transmisogyny as not misogyny, just the transphobia experienced by trans women. Either way I'm not fond of it

those r/twosentencehorror stories where people are intentionally trying to be dumb and funny cannot hold a CANDLE to actually bad r/twosentencehorror

i'll take one

over a hundred of

wow i wonder if that 300 year gap could be explained by any outside factors…….whoa! for some reason it lines up with the timeline of britain’s invasion and subsequent colonization of ireland! wild, huh? i wonder if the two are connected in some way? i guess the world will never know….

“why do the Irish hate the English so much? It couldn’t have been *that* bad!!”

This was in place till 1973.

Seeing non irish people reblogging this makes me happy

The stereotype of “the Irish are drunks” is English propaganda used to justify paternalism and controlling the Irish. It’s bullshit.

if u are lesbian gay bisexual trans queer etc etc answer my poll boy

I think sometimes people forget that the gov is the corporations’ bitch, not the other way round.

"Maybe the reason trans women's posts are getting marked as 18+ even after getting reviewed is because the review process is getting outsourced to other countries where they're poorly trained and have different standards" yeah sure. I suppose you think Disney doesn't make movies with gay people to appease markets in China too. Get fucking real.

This is completely and utterly untrue. Just because there was a king again for a bit later doesn’t mean the French aristocracy wasn’t permanently disempowered by the revolution. The Bourbon Restoration was an effort by the feudal class to put the genie back in the bottle, and it failed miserably.

Strange that it never occured to me. There are times I've been so upset that I've stamped around while cussing, that I've lain flat on the floor and groaned for as long as I had breath, that I've ranted my frustration aloud in an unhinged monologue, that I've swung my limbs about in a fury. All until I'd vented enough to just ... resume my normal life.

And if I'd had not the privacy of my home, I'd either have had to bottle that all up ... or open it all up where the public could scrutinize my every move. It really is a privilege to not be constantly on display like that.

[ID: tweet by Lydia Kiesling @ lydiakiesling, "Housed people have the privilege of having their worst moments in private; unhoused people don't. That gives some people the mistaken impression that the person they see acting belligerent on the street is and will be that person every single moment of their life."]

Also consider how you must look every time you're sick for any reason. Everyone gets delirious with fever now and then, everyone gets stomach cramps where they're doubled over moaning in pain, now imagine how much more often that happens to people with no clean facilities. I can't count how often I've heard or seen someone complain about a homeless "druggie" and the behavior they're describing is significantly more likely to come from food poisoning than drug withdrawals.

Not that drug addiction isn't also a medical condition that warrants medical care, but the fact is a large number of people will attribute literally all of an unhoused person's displays of pain, exhaustion or discomfort up to drugs and alcohol.

Back again

And look who came crawling back, I know! I’ve not used Tumblr in a hot minuet. Hi everyone

one time in my last job a woman came up to the register explaining that when she bought stuff a day prior the clerk forgot to scan a pair of socks worth less than €2 and it was only right for her to bring it back to the store and pay for it proper. unfortunately my manager was directly next to me at the time and took over the register to handle this serious issue. the receipt she had brought with her said which register performed the previous transaction that forgot the socks and the manager could find out who was running that till on that day. poor dude had a manager yell at him for a half hour about how much of an incompetent fuck up he was, he left the job immediately after but i couldnt tell you if he quit or was fired

i think about this moment a lot. the customer seemed like a sweet woman with only good intentions and when she paid for the socks she had a look on her face that said "i feel good because i did the right thing". and a guy lost his job because of a pair of socks. if shit like this ever happens to you and a clerk forgets to scan an item just think of it as a small blessing or that you had good luck or something. keep it.

Those memes about hypothetical pretentious "film bro" movies seek the delicate balance of a country of origin that's just foreign enough to orientalize but not enough to be called racist over.

I also hate the fact that those countries are invariably in eastern Europe, and that the devastating effects of American imperialism in eastern Europe are a joke to Americans and nobody ever calls them on it because American racial metaphysics always dominate the conversation and set the standard for what is and isn't acceptable. Fuck America, fuck its jokes, fuck its memes, fuck its racial metaphysics. I'm sick of Americans never being held to account for writing off entire regions of the planet and their struggles against American imperialism as hilarious punchlines.

The universalisation of USAmerican racial dynamics and categorisation is what facilitates turning the long-standing ethnic oppression of eastern Europe into a joke - the struggle of eastern immigrants to western Europe, the depopulation and brain drain that comes with it, the flow of profit into the centers of European power, all of it gets reduced to 'haha, it's so funny that there's ethnic conflict in the Balkans, because they're all White!' Relations only solidified in the context of a settler class get applied to contexts where they make no sense, and result in a papering-over of cases of national oppression, rather than a re-evaluation of those relations' applicability.

Grandma poison water SNAPPED

I SAID

OO GIRL

fuck me like electric eel

not the lyrics.

grow up cunt

Interview with the Vampire, Season 2 Trailer

My favorite rejected New Yorker submission

Drew Barrymore at the Ever After premiere 1998

“A society which cannot tolerate genderbending or cross- dressing ultimately will not tolerate homosexuality, bisexuality, or any other deviance from sexual or gender norms, no matter how closeted or assimilated.”

- Dagger: On Butch Women, 1994

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